Holocaust denier expelled from Warsaw book
fair

Sat May 19, 2007 11:27AM BST

WARSAW (Reuters) - Historian David Irving, a
convicted holocaust denier, was escorted out of an international book fair in
Warsaw where he was planning to display his books, Polish organisers said on
Saturday.

Irving, who was arrested in Austria after
his arrival on a visit in November 2005, spent more than a year in an
Austrian jail for denying the Nazis organised mass murder of six million Jews
during World War Two.

"We asked him to leave," said Grzegorz
Guzowski, the book fair organiser. "Our employees helped him pack up his
things, and our car drove him to the address he specified."

He said Irving's publishers did not send
materials detailing his work to the fair until a few hours before the
deadline, giving organisers too little time to prevent the self-taught
historian from setting up a table at the exhibition.

Unlike many European countries, Polish law
does not expressly forbid Holocaust denial, Warsaw University law professor
Piotr Kruszynski told Reuters.

"Polish laws prohibiting the promotion of
fascism and defamation of people on racial and religious grounds could
conceivably be extended to include Irving's writings," he added.

Irving plans to remain in the country for a
few more days to visit Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps in
Poland.

"It's ironic that it's come to a situation
like this in Poland, which fought against restrictions on speech for such a
long time," Irving was quoted by daily Zycie Warszawy as saying.

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